Regard for the Other : : Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde /

Regard for the Other : : Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde / / E.S. Burt.

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Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary i...

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Burt, E.S.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A Clutch of Brothers: Alterity and Autothanatography
  • I. Autobiography Interrupted
  • 1. Developments in Character: ‘‘The Children’s Punishment’’ and ‘‘The Broken Comb’’
  • 2. Regard for the Other: Embarrassment in the Quatrième promenade
  • 3. The Shape before the Mirror: Autobiography and the Dandy in Baudelaire
  • II. Writing Death, with Regard to the Other
  • 4. Hospitality in Autobiography: Levinas chez De Quincey
  • 5. Eating with the Other in Les Paradis artificiels
  • 6. Secrets Can Be Murder: How to Write the Secret in De Profundis
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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